Re: Character display problem in mumi and my mail client

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Arun Isaac <address@hidden> writes:

>> I’m currently in the process of moving away from the SOAP service for
>> fetching message contents, because it’s just too painful.  There are too
>> many truncated or otherwise mangled messages, and in the end we are just
>> assembling them back to a good old email to parse them with Arun’s
>> guile-email.  Going forward mumi will only use the SOAP service to get
>> bug status information and pointers to messages.  The actual emails will
>> be fetched through the Debbugs web interface with much cursing.
>
> Debbugs provides complete mboxes. guile-email supports reading
> mboxes. We could use that if the SOAP service is problematic. Scraping
> the HTML from the Debbugs web interface is going to be a lot more
> painful than the SOAP service.

My development version of Guile Debbugs uses the mboxes, of course.
They are, however, provided by an HTTP endpoint, which is part of the
Debbugs web interface.

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Ricardo